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R. A. MOORE 7 Nov. 10, 1925- BUCKLE Filed Feb. 25,

Patented New. 10, 1925,.

UNITED STATES atina-a Parent eerie ROSXIVELL A. MOORE, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, [ifiSIGNOR T JlTAfllilRIBUIRY BUCKLE 30., OF VIATEEBUEY, CONNECTICUT, A. GGRPORATEON.

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Application filed February 25, 1925. Serial No. 11,437.

To a 1072 0122. it may concern Be it known that T, RoswnLi. A. Moons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vi atcrbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and ex act description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Fig. 1 a. view in front elevation of a buckle embodying my invention and applied to a piece of webbing, the running-reach of which is broken away.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof.

Fig. 3 a sectional View on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a detached view of the buckle-frame blank.

Fig. 5 an enlarged, sectional view of the buckleframe and the fixed end of the webbing, on the line 5--5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 a view corresponding to Fig. 3, but showing a modified form of the buckle.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of buckles known to the art and in the trade as rustless buckles, the object being to produce, at a low cost for man ufacture, a buckle in which any stitching of the webbing is avoided, which is of superior efficiency in the matter of gripping the webbing, and of unusual comfort on account of the thinness of the buckle-frame.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a rustless buckle characterized by having the upper edge of the body-portion of its frame formed with a series of notches, and the lower edge of such bodyportion formed with a corresponding series of aligned gripping-fingers which are turned upward and inward, so as to crowd localized portions of the webbing into the said notches.

My invention further consists in a buckle characterized as described and having its gripping-fingers bent rearward, upward and inward for the creation in the fixed end of the webbing of friction-supplementing protuberances.

My invention further consists in a rustless buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, the upper edge of the body-portion 10 of the sheet-metal buckle-frame is formed with a series of spaced notches 11, while its lower edge is formed with an equal number of aligned integral web-gripping fingers 12, which are turned rearward and upward substantially parallel with the back of the said body-portion 10 and then outward into or toward the said notches sufficiently to displace localized portions of the fixed end 13 of the webbing, so as to create four protuberances 14, projecting from rear to front slightly forward of the plane of the buckleframe.

v The fixed end 13 of the webbing is thus firmly attached to the buckle-frame without either being stitched or punctured. The fixed end of the webbing is then carried downward to form the customary loop 15 and turned forward and upward to form the running-reach 16, which is passed between the toothed gripping-edge 1'? of the buckle-lever 18 and the protuberances l4 aforesaid. The said buckle-lever is pivotally mounted upon a pintle-bar 19 parallel with the body-portion 10 of the frame and connected therewith by the side-bars 20, the said parts of the buckle-frame being integral and the lever being formed with ears 21, which are clasped around the said pintlebar, near the ends thereof. When the lever is forced into its closed position, its gripping-edge deflects the running-reach 16 of the webbing from front to rear, and forces it against the said protuberances, which thus supplement the grip of the lever upon the webbing.

The modified construction shown by Fig. 6 is the same as that described, except the prongs. 12, instead of being bent rearward and upward and then inward, are bent forward, upward and then inward, the ends of the prongs serving to crowd localized portions of the fixed end of the webbing into the notches 11 in the upper edge of the bodyportion of the frame. In this case, the said prongs, by forcing the webbing into the notches, secure a superior hold upon the webbing, but the protuberances are not then in position to supplement the friction-hold of the running-reach of the webbing.

I claim:

1. A buckle, comprising a frame having a body-portion and a pintle bar, with a space between them, the upper edge of the said body-portion formed with spaced notches, and the lower edge formed with corresponding, aligned, web-gripping fingers, which are bent upward, alongside the said bodyportion, and turned into the said notches, for deflecting localized portions of the webbing thereinto, and beyond one face of the body-portion, and a lever pivotally mount ed on the said pintle bar, in position to deflect the running-reach of the webbing over the upper edge of the body-portion of the frame, and against the surface of the webbing passing over the upper edge of the body-portion.

2. The combination with a buckle, comprising a frame having a body-portion and a pintle bar, with a space between them, the upper edge of the body-portion formed with spaced notches, and the lower edge formed with corresponding, aligned, web-gripping fingers, which are turned rearward, upward and then outward, tow rd the said notches; ot' a web, one end of which is located between the body-portion and the lingers, which causes localized portions of the x214- bing to be deflected in front of the bodyportion, and a buckle-lever pivoted upon the pintle bar of the frame, in position to force the running-reach of the webbing against said deflected portions.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

ROSWELL A. MOORE. 

